Chapter 62: Drought gets worse

“What’s the fight about?”

Su Yin sat next to Su Baozhu and reached out to check her scalp.

Su Baozhu muttered in a low voice, “I didn’t know what was going on at the time. I just wanted to teach her a lesson. Maybe she didn’t like her.”

“You, you!”

Su Yin also felt unhappy with the strong woman, and sometimes wanted to rush forward. Beat her up, especially if you see her fucking her.

But the other party doesn’t care about you, so you can’t do anything for no reason.

She glanced at Su Baozhu, feeling somewhat understanding of her actions.

“Have you vented your anger?”

Su Baozhu smiled at her, “I feel much better.”

“Don’t be impulsive next time. It will be difficult if you get hurt.”

“No.”

In the mountain temple, the woman and the men were busy making vessels.

The injured man didn’t do anything, and everyone else who could do it was working. Even Su’s mother was helping.

At three o’clock in the morning, Li Zheng asked everyone to rest.

I have to go on a long journey tomorrow, so I need to get some rest.

Su Baozhu had already prepared a sleeping place. In fact, it was very simple to find a place in the temple and lay a straw mat on it.

The straw mat is quite big, just big enough for Su Yin, Su Mu and Su Baozhu to lie down.

Not far away from them were the younger aunt, Xiao Taohua, and Xiao Yanggui, and next to them were the second aunt’s family, the eldest aunt, and the others.

The two eldest cousins ​​also followed closely on the eldest aunt’s side.

“There are a lot of mosquitoes at night, so put more mugwort to fumigate it.”

Mother Su felt very sorry for her daughter. There were only one or two bites from others, but her daughter had at least several times more bites than others.

She spent the night in the woods and suffered the same crime. .

Mrs. Zhang had a problem, “What are you doing with so much? It will kill people.”

My aunt couldn’t help but say, “We are afraid of mosquitoes, so we should put more.

My mother-in-law, if you are not afraid of mosquitoes, why don’t you move to the side? I don’t want to get you in trouble.”

As soon as she opened her mouth, Mrs. Zhang didn’t dare to speak.

The second aunt took some mugwort out, and today it is the second uncle’s turn to stay in front of the house for half the night.

The night was dreamless and peaceful.

Before dawn in the morning, Su Yin heard a rustling sound in the mountain temple. When he opened his eyes, many people were getting up under the moonlight.

“Nizi, get up quickly and collect more dew while it’s still dark.”

“Get up quickly.”

People in the temple, old and young, got up one after another, taking the containers made last night to collect dew.

Dew must be collected before the sun rises, otherwise it will disappear quickly when the sun comes up.

Mother Su followed.

“Mom, where are you going?”

“I’ll collect some for them.”

Su Yin originally wanted to sleep for a while, but after thinking about it, she got up too.

One more person has more strength and can also collect more dew.

Whether the water source can be found today is still unknown.

“I’ll go too.”

“No, you can sleep a little longer.”

“It’s okay.”

Su Baozhu also got up.

Walking outside, the men in Xinghua Village had already brought their tools and went out to collect dew. The only one resting was Wan Sanye.

The man was leaning against the tree trunk, snoring soundly in sleep.

Su Yin didn’t bother.

There were many people near the mountain temple. Su Yin and the other three walked further in, each found a bush and started collecting dew.

“There isn’t much dew here.”

“Yes. There isn’t much dew on many trees.”

Not only Su Yin noticed, but everyone else noticed.

The dew on the bushes evaporated before the sun rose.

Su Yin didn’t collect much, and the situation of others was similar.

The three of them gave the dew they collected to Aunt Wang’s family. Aunt Wang thanked her profusely and even knelt down to kowtow.

Because of the lack of water, except for a few families who burned fires to cook, the rest of the families still ate dry food.

Wan Sanye ate the white porridge in the bowl, feeling a little disgusted.

He was used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and he could tolerate eating porridge and side dishes occasionally, but he had two consecutive meals of porridge, and each meal was worse than the last.

This gap made him uncomfortable.

“Why don’t you put some meat in it?” Wan Sanye muttered.

“It’s good to eat some. Look at the others.”

Mr. Wan Sanye raised his head and noticed that many children were eagerly looking at the porridge in their bowls.

They didn’t say anything and just drank the porridge in silence.

After everyone packed up, the group set off on the road.

After walking for an hour, the boundary monument of Nanping County appeared in front of them.

“Finally, we arrived at Nanping County.”

“I heard that Nanping County is more prosperous than our Lingxi area and has a larger population.”

“Yes, that’s right. I’ve also heard merchants talk about it.”

“I don’t know about Nanping County. What’s the situation there? Is it better than us?”

Everyone felt better after arriving in a new place.

But as they walked, they gradually realized something was wrong.

Su Yin paid attention to the surrounding environment. There were many fertile fields not far away, and grains were grown in them.

However, these grains had all dried up and died. The fields were dry and cracked, with crisscrossing ravines opened up.

Yang Dashan knelt down and touched a handful of withered wheat ears, feeling very distressed.

These ears of rice bore no fruit.

The farther they went, the more the grain dried up.

“Nanping County is actually more serious than our Lingxi County,” someone said in surprise.

“Maybe it’s serious in this area, but it will get better later.”

Everyone hoped so, but most knew that this hope was slim.

Wan Sanye didn’t seem surprised at all.

“Fat Master, how much do you know about the situation in Nanping County?”

“It’s very bad.”

These three words were enough to explain everything. “Except for the booming business of grain stores in the entire Nanping County, other industries are not doing well.

I delivered a batch of grain some time ago, and I originally planned to leave. It happened that a friend from Yongqing County invited me over, and I went to keep the appointment…”

At this point, Wan Sanye paused. Needless to say, Su Yin also guessed that he had been tricked. The other party invited him because they wanted his life and wealth.

The other party set up traps, but Fatty was able to escape unscathed, which shows his agility.

“Fortunately, I met my little friend.”

“What does this mean?” Su Yin asked.

“Would you like to hear the details?”

“It means we are destined.”

Mr. Wan San laughed and said, “It makes sense.”

The further they walked, the heavier the mood in Xinghua Village felt. They saw no people, only large areas of abandoned fields.

“There is a river ahead.”

Everyone’s eyes lit up, and some rushed over impatiently.

However, the entire river was dry, the riverbed cracked, and there was not a drop of water.

This result was reasonable.

It’s hard to say they were disappointed.

Looking at the dry river, Yang Lizheng said, “Keep going.”

Around midnight, they saw a village in front of them. When they got closer, they found that the village was empty.

The village was not too dilapidated, but some of the houses had lost their doors and windows.

“We’ll stay here tonight. Several families are too far apart. After putting things away, one person from each family will go out to look for water.”

Su Yin’s family stayed with Madam Xu, her younger uncle, and her second uncle’s family.

After they put their things away, Su Yin, Yang Hua, Yang Lin, and Madam Xu went to look for water sources.

“Come back before dark, and pay attention to safety,” Yang Lizheng instructed, and then asked the respective teams to search for water sources.

Su Yin took her two cousins and Mrs. Xu to the south of the village to search.